The Five Practices, One Delegation Mindset
The frame: manage a new hire, not software
You're not learning to operate software. You're learning to manage a new hire: talented, tireless, fast, slightly overconfident, and very literal.
That's the whole frame for this module. Read the five practices below once, as a map (each one gets its own lesson, its own mechanism, and a live worked demo: a spreadsheet reconciliation with seeded mismatches, a contract folder turned into a renewals tracker, a monthly report that drafts itself). Nothing here is asserted without a demo behind it. This lesson is the map, not the proof; the proof starts at the next lesson and doesn't let up until practice five's report lands in your drafts folder, unsent, waiting for a signature.
Every one of the five practices below is something already known about delegating well to a person. The tool is new. The underlying discipline is not.
The five practices, at a glance
See the plan before any work happens. Misunderstandings are cheap when they're caught in a proposal and expensive once they're baked into a finished file.
Inputs in hand, output defined, verifiable today. A vague mission stalls; a bounded job ships.
"Done" is a claim, not proof. The evidence (citations, control totals, an exception list) has to be part of what gets delivered.
Corrections compound instead of repeating. A rule written to a file survives every session; a rule spoken in chat evaporates with it.
Automate the work. Never automate the accountability. Anything that reaches a client, the ledger, or a filing gets a human's approval first.
How the five connect
Each practice guards one point in the same handoff, from briefing the work, to bounding it, to checking it, to remembering the fix, to signing off on what leaves.
Not one technical skill among them
Where this module goes next
Practice one is the same discipline as with any new hire: don't let them start before they've told you what they think the job is. That's where this module picks up next.
Practice 01, with its mechanism (Plan Mode) and the ten-second correction that replaces a twenty-minute one.
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